40th Anniversary
On the carpeted floor of a building that once was a church, 20 people are sitting in a circle holding hands. The only light in the room comes from three candles flickering in the center of the ring.

A conversation about the past, present and future of AIDS with a scientist hunting for a vaccine

40th Anniversary
Photographs of microscopic organisms line the walls of the Institute of Human Virology entryway. Resembling modern abstract paintings, these framed images of colorful cells are at the root of the deadliest pandemic of our time—HIV

When 33 deaths were announced, it was just a guess

40th Anniversary
Of all the questions to rise from the blackened debris and blood-smeared
chambers of the February 1980 New Mexico prison riot, none would be
more haunting than the uncertainty about how many men actually died
during the horror.

A week in the online Army

40th Anniversary
By Zane Fischer
On my first day of basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, I’m given an M16 and told to attempt to qualify as an infantry marksman. I’m nervous because I’ve never actually fired the weapon before and the voice of the drill ser

Former publisher reflects on leadership, letters and lowriders

A Time Capsule Different

40th Anniversary Issue
A number of new ideas were introduced to Santa Fe in the 1970s. Some, like the
Reporter, have endured. Others, like shag carpeting, polyester pantsuits for women and obligatory sideburns for men, have disappeared.

Fossils, weird mascots and overpopulation, oh my!

How SFR persevered against the biggest newspaper chain in America

40th Anniversary Issue
Richard McCord couldn’t believe what had just happened. Here he was in February 1981 at the Portland District Courthouse in a last-ditch effort to get a copy of a large lawsuit filed against mega newspaper corporation the Gannett Company.

Once upon a time, SFR went online

40th Anniversary Issue
The year was 2002. I had been the editor of the Reporter for two years, during which time the culture and economy had been rocked by 9/11, and was starting to undergo enormous changes as the Internet’s influence spread like a virus.

Blame Canada, SFR’s April Fools’ tie-in, the Rockefeller connection and other Reporter-isms

40th Anniversary Issue
Richard McCord mined just about every single advertiser in town, ringing them up
personally. “I didn’t say I’m trying to start a newspaper; I said I’m going to start a newspaper.”

06.21.17

06.14.17

24 hours fast in the saddle makes her anything but a dull girl

Bike Issue 2014
Midnight is the witching hour for most, but not me. On this night, it happened closer to 11:15 pm, as I clocked mile 97.
I ride into camp exhausted, dirty, grumpy, aching. I literally can’t feel my lower back, and I’m hoping the stabbing pain in

Bike Issue 2014

24 hours fast in the saddle makes her anything but a dull girl

Bike Issue 2014
Midnight is the witching hour for most, but not me. On this night, it happened closer to 11:15 pm, as I clocked mile 97.
I ride into camp exhausted, dirty, grumpy, aching. I literally can’t feel my lower back, and I’m hoping the stabbing pain in

Bike advocates blaze the trail

Bike Issue 2014
Store manager of Santa Fe’s REI and founding member of the Santa Fe Fat
Tire Society Bob Ward recounts the tale of one summer day back in 2010
when a confrontation between a mountain biker and hiker came to blows on
the high ridgetop trails of Atalaya Mountain.

A look at two of the mayor-elect’s biggest supporters

City Elections
The married, retired lawyers work as a team that has been a mainstay in local progressive political circles. But some view the pair with suspicion. As the mayor’s race kicked off last fall, a memo hung on the community bulletin board halfway between the offices of the city clerk and the city attorney.

City Elections
In the grand scheme of things, about 60,200 people are registered to vote in the upcoming city election as of the last count, yet if trends from past elections play out, fewer than 20,000 will cast ballots. That means city races will be decided by the elite few who bother to exercise their democratic freedom.

Features
The two friends had laced up and hit the court together many times before. They’d played on the same team in an Albuquerque recreational basketball league for years. In a Bernalillo County league, too.

The rise and rise of Santa Fe’s next great musical hope

Features
One can barely recall a time when more buzz surrounded a Santa Fe band than Storming the Beaches with Logos in Hand, the lovingly labored-over indie-rock project of musician Luke Carr (and many others) that began in 2013.

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A particular change, by the new Director John F Jones, seems to discriminate on the basis of age and sex. The long-standing fitness requirements were graded by age and gender. The new requirements, put in place by Jones, eliminated that grading, which, especially in the case of “push ups” makes it almost impossible for women.

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A particular change, by the new Director John F Jones, seems to discriminate on the basis of age and sex. The long-standing fitness requirements were graded by age and gender. The new requirements, put in place by Jones, eliminated that grading, which, especially in the case of “push ups” makes it almost impossible for women.

08.16.17

Letters to the Editor
Mail letters to PO Box 2306, Santa Fe, NM 87504, deliver to 132 E Marcy St., or email them to editor@sfreporter.com.
Letters (no more than 200 words) should refer to speciﬁc articles in
the Reporter. Letters will be edited for space and clarity.

08.16.17

Letters to the Editor
Mail letters to PO Box 2306, Santa Fe, NM 87504, deliver to 132 E Marcy St., or email them to editor@sfreporter.com.
Letters (no more than 200 words) should refer to speciﬁc articles in
the Reporter. Letters will be edited for space and clarity.

08.09.17

Letters to the Editor
Mail letters to PO Box 2306, Santa Fe, NM 87504, deliver to 132 E Marcy St., or email them to editor@sfreporter.com. Letters (no more than 200 words) should refer to speciﬁc articles in the Reporter. Letters will be edited for space and clarity.

08.02.17

Letters to the Editor
Mail letters to PO Box 2306, Santa Fe, NM 87504, deliver to 132 E Marcy St., or email them to editor@sfreporter.com. Letters (no more than 200 words) should refer to speciﬁc articles in the Reporter. Letters will be edited for space and clarity.

07.26.17

Letters to the Editor
Mail letters to PO Box 2306, Santa Fe, NM 87504, deliver to 132 E Marcy St., or email them to editor@sfreporter.com. Letters (no more than 200 words) should refer to speciﬁc articles in the Reporter. Letters will be edited for space and clarity.

07.19.17

Letters to the Editor
Mail letters to PO Box 2306, Santa Fe, NM 87504, deliver to 132 E Marcy St., or email them to editor@sfreporter.com. Letters (no more than 200 words) should refer to speciﬁc articles in the Reporter. Letters will be edited for space and clarity.

07.12.17

Letters to the Editor
Mail letters to PO Box 2306, Santa Fe, NM 87504, deliver to 132 E Marcy St., or email them to editor@sfreporter.com. Letters (no more than 200 words) should refer to speciﬁc articles in the Reporter. Letters will be edited for space and clarity.

07.05.17

Letters to the Editor
Mail letters to PO Box 2306, Santa Fe, NM 87504, deliver to 132 E Marcy St., or email them to editor@sfreporter.com. Letters (no more than 200 words) should refer to speciﬁc articles in the Reporter. Letters will be edited for space and clarity.

06.28.17

Letters to the Editor
Mail letters to PO Box 2306, Santa Fe, NM 87504, deliver to 132 E Marcy St., or email them to editor@sfreporter.com.
Letters (no more than 200 words) should refer to speciﬁc articles in
the Reporter. Letters will be edited for space and clarity.

06.21.17

Letters to the Editor
Mail letters to PO Box 2306, Santa Fe, NM 87504, deliver to 132 E Marcy St., or email them to editor@sfreporter.com.
Letters (no more than 200 words) should refer to speciﬁc articles in
the Reporter. Letters will be edited for space and clarity.

Local News
Under renewed public pressure, Santa Fe Police Chief Patrick Gallagher says he plans to disclose the results of an internal investigation into one of his sergeants who posted racist and offensive meme

A new skate park takes residence on the Southside behind the Chavez Center

Local News
It was a journey that lasted years upon years, but on July 29, skaters, city officials and Southside residents could finally celebrate the official opening of a skate park outside the Genoveva Chavez Community Center with a ribbon cutting.

Dispensaries and medical professionals in New Mexico are forming a pro-cannabis network by word of mouth

Local News
Walk into the Department of Health’s rented office spaces on Rodeo Road and you’ll see not one, but three signs with large print instructing visitors to head to suite 200 on the second floor for the Medical Cannabis Program.

08.16.17

MetroGlyphs
Russ Thornton is a Santa Fe local who has replaced his first passion, cooking, with a new love interest, the weekly SFR comic he's created called MetroGlyphs. Reach him at santafechef@hotmail.com

MetroGlyphs

08.16.17

MetroGlyphs
Russ Thornton is a Santa Fe local who has replaced his first passion, cooking, with a new love interest, the weekly SFR comic he's created called MetroGlyphs. Reach him at santafechef@hotmail.com

08.09.17

MetroGlyphs
Russ Thornton is a Santa Fe local who has replaced his first passion,
cooking, with a new love interest, the weekly SFR comic he's created
called MetroGlyphs. Reach him at santafechef@hotmail.com

08.02.17

MetroGlyphs
Russ Thornton is a Santa Fe local who has replaced his first passion, cooking, with a new love interest, the weekly SFR comic he's created called MetroGlyphs. Reach him at santafechef@hotmail.com

07.26.17

MetroGlyphs
Russ Thornton is a Santa Fe local who has replaced his first passion,
cooking, with a new love interest, the weekly SFR comic he's created
called MetroGlyphs. Reach him at santafechef@hotmail.com

07.19.17

MetroGlyphs
Russ Thornton is a Santa Fe local who has replaced his first passion,
cooking, with a new love interest, the weekly SFR comic he's created
called MetroGlyphs. Reach him at santafechef@hotmail.com

07.12.17

MetroGlyphs
Russ Thornton is a Santa Fe local who has replaced his first passion,
cooking, with a new love interest, the weekly SFR comic he's created
called MetroGlyphs. Reach him at santafechef@hotmail.com

07.05.17

MetroGlyphs
Russ Thornton is a Santa Fe local who has replaced his first passion, cooking, with a new love interest, the weekly SFR comic he's created called MetroGlyphs. Reach him at santafechef@hotmail.com

06.28.17

MetroGlyphs
Russ Thornton is a Santa Fe local who has replaced his first passion,
cooking, with a new love interest, the weekly SFR comic he's created
called MetroGlyphs. Reach him at santafechef@hotmail.com

06.21.17

MetroGlyphs
Russ Thornton is a Santa Fe local who has replaced his first passion, cooking, with a new love interest, the weekly SFR comic he's created called MetroGlyphs. Reach him at santafechef@hotmail.com

06.07.17

MetroGlyphs
Russ Thornton is a Santa Fe local who has replaced his first passion, cooking, with a new love interest, the weekly SFR comic he's created called MetroGlyphs. Reach him at santafechef@hotmail.com

05.07.14

Top 5 ways you can help your environment

Opinion
For two years, I’ve been lucky enough to write this column about environmental issues for SFR each month. Now, the time has come to embrace other projects and make way for new voices. Thanks, reader

The intersection of science and wonder can save species

Opinion
This summer, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature announced that the western black rhinoceros was officially extinct. The subspecies of African rhino had last been spotted in 2006.

Melville and the teacher’s dilemma

Opinion
Bartleby is a gray-eyed law clerk who shows up in Herman Melville’s short fiction in the 1850s. When he’s first hired, Bartleby does his copying work with great efficiency. But then one day, on being asked to review a document, he refuses.

Public servants shouldn’t get to hand out interviews like prizes

Opinion
Behind the curtain of almost every news story is a secret dance. In the process of understanding an issue, reporters must find people willing to talk; it’s those people whose voices and perspectives bring the hard facts of a story to life.

The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?

Rebuilding Afghani Civil Society

Podcasts
Former NPR reporter Sarah Chayes left journalism in 2002 to help rebuild Afghanistan. Frustrated by the corruption and arrogance she encountered with US-backed aid organizations, she formed the privately owned and funded Arghand Cooperative—a soap and body oil company.

In Justice: Stepping across the Party Line

Podcasts
When New Mexico’s Bush-appointed U.S. Attorney David Iglesias refused to indict high-level Democrats before the 2006 elections, he was fired—along with six other federal prosecutors. His courage in speaking out against the Bush administration led to public outrage and a nationwide dialogue on the overreach of executive powers.